Robust and global trade drives the world’s
economic engine. And it’s the quickest and surest way we know to accelerate economic growth, create new
jobs and improve living standards.

Now we
freely admit that UPS has an interest here. At any given moment, UPS
handles 6 percent of the U.S. GDP and moves 2
percent of the global GDP. So global trade is important to the future of
UPS, and that holds true for its workers, and for workers across America.
Every 22 packages per day that cross a border supports one job in UPS’s package
operation.

That’s why UPS is so supportive of President
Obama’s recent announcement of a landmark trade deal with South Korea,
which is estimated to increase American economic output by more than the last
nine trade agreements combined.

UPS’s logistics and lending services empower
businesses of all sizes to export their goods and services virtually anywhere
in the world, and with the impending passage of this agreement, there will be a
lot more businesses to work
with.